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Aircraft and transport: Libyan militia surrounds Tripoli Airport

Tripoli, Libya - Flights diverted on another city's airport

The members of a Libyan militia, equipped with heavy machine guns and armored vehicles, called "Brigade al-Awfea" surrounded the civilian airport, forcing the authorities to delete all the departing flights, and to divert the incoming aircraft on the Mitiga Airport, 8 km east of the capital's city centre. The website "Tunisia Live" reported of hundreds armed men who occupied all the areas in the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1141648
Rome, Italy, 06/04/2012 17:18
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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